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Naia (skeleton)
12,000-year-old skeleton found in Mexico
Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name given to a 12,000- to 13,000-year-old Paleo-Indian teenage girl whose skeleton was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun.
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Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name given to a 12,000- to 13,000-year-old Paleo-Indian teenage girl whose skeleton was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun. At the time of Naia's death, the cave system was mostly dry, and she likely died falling into Hoyo Negro. The remains have been described as the "oldest, most complete and genetically intact human skeleton in the New World".
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